"Morpheus!" Persephone exclaimed. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the screen. "Where are you right now? I'll pick you up?"

"No need." He managed a forced smile. "It's late. It's not safe for you to be out. Let's—"

"It's safe, very safe!"

As she spoke, she swiftly changed her clothes.

After emerging from the changing room, she picked up her phone and grinned at him. "Morpheus, I—"

He gently interrupted, "Sephy, you really don't have to pick me up. I have a place to stay."

"But you're not familiar with Southeast Aciatic!"

"It's alright." He smiled. "Be a good girl and go to bed. We'll meet tomorrow."

"But..."

Persephone was visibly upset as she wanted to see him right now.

Didn't he feel the same? Which couple could wait to see their partner in the same city after being apart for so long?

Resigned, she acknowledged his character. Nobody could change his mind once he

"I promise."

smiled gently

well, either, as

the distinctive heat and dampness of the air in

he reached the hotel he had booked in the suburbs, far from the

helped him calm

the night. His father appeared on the bloody battlefield

his father didn't scoff or mock him. He just stared, conveying with dim, cold eyes

I can be with her now, right?"

him with an ambiguous smile on his face. "You owe me for the rest of your life,

"No..."

you got so many people to die with me. Their souls will not forgive

his back drenched in cold sweat.

Persephone arrived at the agreed-upon

and vibrant flowers blooming in the

had paid the cafe owner for the privacy he

when she saw

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